The trial of
the Senate President, Bukola Saraki resumed Thursday at the Code of Conduct
Tribunal [CCT] where the federal government tendered a statement made by
the Senate President to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] in 2013.
the Senate President to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] in 2013.
Saraki is
standing trial at the CCT on 16 charges of false asset declaration and breach
of Code of of Conduct for Public Officers.
The sun news reported that during the
proccedings, the prosecution, led by Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), tendered Saraki’s
statement to the EFCC dated August 12, 2013, through a detective of the
anti-graft agency, Mr. Alvan Gurummaal, subpoenaed by the Tribunal to tender
the statement.
The tribunal
had earlier admitted four sets of petitions sent to the EFCC against Saraki in
May and June 2012 written by the Kwara Freedom Network.
Mr. Michael
Wetkas, the first prosecution witness who tendered the petitions told the
tribunal that he led the inter-agency team that investigated an intelligence
report on the allegations leading to the charges instituted against Saraki
before the tribunal.
However, he
told the tribunal under cross-examination by Saraki’s lead counsel, Chief Kanu
Agabi (SAN), that the petitions had nothing to do with the charges instituted
against Saraki before the CCT.
But Agabi had
said he needed to cross-examine Wetkas on the petitions in order to challenge
the contents and because they were tendered through the witness.
Wetkas,
however insisted that the allegations contained in the petitions were not the
basis of the investigation which his team conducted leading to the charges of
false asset declaration preferred against Saraki.
Wetkas
confirmed under cross-examination that the petitions were written about one
year after Saraki left office as governor of Kwara State in 2011.
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